Tag: Indian Food

Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Bombay Vegetable Cheese Grilled Sandwich I have had several kinds of sandwiches all my life, but this one rules supreme. Commonly called ‘Veg Sandwich’ in Mumbai, it is essentially street food. Wherever you see roadside food vendor carts selling chaat items, you can be sure that there will be at…

Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Rice Yup! Rice it is alright. I come from a region in India where rice and rice products form the staple food. Traditionally, we have breakfast items made out of rice powder, and we have boiled rice for lunch and dinner afterwards as well. Times have changed now and a…

Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Ah! Childhood snacks! Strangely though, I refused to limit them to just my childhood…I eat them even now and I don’t care if the world chooses to judge me on this. Having grown up in a typical south Indian family, our snacks were usually stuff that our parents and their…

Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Thank you for the A2A. It’s not like ‘all Indians’ are obsessed with chapati. Not all of us have chapati as a part of our daily diet. For instance, I’m from a state in south India. Our staple food is parboiled brown rice and its derivatives. Chapati is a fairly…

Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Having lived in Tamil Nadu for four years at a stretch and having had the good fortune to have so many Tamilian friends who have treated me to the best homemade dishes ever, I think I am quite well-experienced to answer this 😀 I must admit that I am not…

Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Thank you for the A2A. Yes, it is true that eating meat was not prohibited as per ancient scriptures. But it was not permitted for certain sects to consume meat. As far as I know, meat was not consumed by the Brahmins(priestly class). It was permitted for all other sects…especially…